Vocabulary

• draw up: To create a formal document
• check out
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• at times: Sometimes; occasionally.
• allow for: To take into consideration
• wash over: If a feeling washes over you, you experience it suddenly and strongly.
• look after: To take care of someone or something
• read up: To spend time trying to find out about something so that you know more about it.
• at hand: Close by; readily available.
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• of choice: Indicating something is preferred or selected deliberately.
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• trait: A particular characteristic that can produce a particular type of behavior
• properly: In an appropriate or correct manner
• prone: Lying flat with your head facing the ground
• character: Person in a story, movie or play
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• fancy: To want to have or do something; feel like
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
• express: To send something by fast mail
• insult: To disrespect someone by being rude or impolite
• explore: To examine something in detail to learn about it
• admit: To acknowledge that something is true or right
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
• blame: To say someone is responsible for something bad
• reluctant: Experiencing or expressing unwillingness to do
• dignity: Person of high rank deserving respect
• theory: Ideas or principles that explain facts or events
• regular: Having an equal amount of space or time in between
• maintain: To keep saying something a certain way
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• draw: To attract attention to someone or something
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• irrelevant: Not important; not related to the topic
• therapist: Person skilled in a particular type of therapy
• superior: Better; higher quality
• observe: To celebrate a particular holiday/religious event
• compatible: Able to get on or be used well together
• irrational: Not sensible or reasonable; illogical
• authenticity: Quality of being genuine, not a fake or copy
• admission: Act of allowing someone to enter
• accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
• interest: Best or most advantageous thing for someone
• mood: Emotion or a state of mind; how you feel
• project: To predict what will happen in the future
• profoundly: With a great depth psychologically
• leave: To go away from; depart
• grateful: Feeling or showing thanks; thankful
• regularly: At the usual time each day, week, or month
• stage: To organize an event to gain public interest
• normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
• idiot: A person who is foolish or not very smart
• proud: Very good; worthy of making one pleased
• prospective: Likely to happen or be something in the future
• act: To behave in a certain way
• needy: Poor; without much money
• defensive: Protecting something, yourself from attack
• disagree: To have a different opinion; to fail to agree
• moderately: A reasonable or fair degree
• embarrassment: Shame you feel when you did something wrong
• distort: To change the shape, appearance, or sound
• baton: Short stick used by a music conductor
• unsteady: Variable; subject to change
• checklist: List of tasks and things to be checked